Calls for action on climate change have intensified as a result of the heatwave and predictions from experts that extreme weather events such as this one will only become more frequent over the coming decades, fuelled by climate change.
"We need to be ready," said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps as passengers faced more disruption in the record-breaking heat.
Shapps conceded the UK’s transport network cannot cope with the intense heat, saying that the Victorian-era infrastructure “just wasn’t built to withstand this type of temperature” and stressed that Britain must “keep ramping up the specification” of its railways to cope with extreme temperatures, although upgrading existing lines would likely "take decades".
he scene after a blaze in the village of Wennington, east London after temperatures topped...